Elmer Hentz(1900-1997)
Elmer G. Hentz was the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) co-op student
who, along with fellow UC student and classmate Dorman Israel,
developed the first commercially-available Crosley radio receiver for
Cincinnati industrialist
Powel Crosley Jr.. That individual
product, coming as it did at the dawn of the radio age, laid the
groundwork for the growth of the Crosley Corporation.